Mahsa ‘inspired a movement’
In the demonstrations that followed Mahsa’s death, more than 500 people, including 71 minors, were killed, hundreds injured and thousands arrested, rights groups said.
Iran carried out seven executions linked to the unrest.
US President Joe Biden in a statement on Friday last week said Mahsa “inspired a historic movement … that has impacted Iran and influenced people across the globe”.
Hundreds of Mahsa’s supporters rallied in front of the White House on Saturday.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry rejected as “double standards and lies” Western expressions of support for women’s rights in Iran.
In a report last month, Amnesty International said Iranian authorities “have been subjecting victims’ families to arbitrary arrest and detention, imposing cruel restrictions on peaceful gatherings at grave sites, and destroying victims’ gravestones”.
Many journalists, lawyers, activists, students, academics, artists, public figures and members of ethnic minorities accused of links with the protest wave, as well as relatives of protesters killed in the unrest, have been arrested, summoned, threatened or fired from jobs in the past few weeks, according to Iranian and Western human rights groups.
Iran blames the unrest on its Western foes and rejects criticism of its legal system, saying it is based on a lack of understanding by rights groups of its Islamic laws. REUTERS
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